Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
  
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Turkish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Osmanly language
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Salam
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
necəsən
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
yaxşı gecə
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
Axşamınız xeyir
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
Sabahınız xeyir
  
Please
Jowo
  
lütfən
  
Sorry
binu
  
üzr
  
Bye
bye
  
xudafiz
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Bağışlayın
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Derbent
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Russia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Gazakh
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Azerbaijan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Baku
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Azerbaijan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
26.00 million
  
39
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
23.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
French Name
yoruba
  
azéri
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Azerbaijani
  
Origin
4 BC
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Azerbaijani
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
az
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
aze
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
aze
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
aze
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
azer1255
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Yoruba and Azerbaijani Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Yoruba and Azerbaijani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Azerbaijani language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Azerbaijani word for "Thank You" is Təşəkkür edirəm. Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Azerbaijani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Azerbaijani Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Azerbaijani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Azerbaijani Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Yoruba and Azerbaijani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Azerbaijani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Azerbaijani time required is 44 weeks.